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Quickies: CD
āAn incomparable lyricist capable of balancing arch wit with painfully acute observation.ā ā Guardian
Nonesuch Records releases the Magnetic Fieldsā Quickies, a CD album that features twenty-eight new short songs by Stephin Merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Merritt explains his thinking behind the Quickies concept: āIāve been reading a lot of very short fiction, and I enjoyed writing 101 Two-Letter Words, the poetry book about the shortest words you can use in Scrabble. And Iāve been listening to a lot of French baroque harpsichord music. Harpsichord doesnāt lend itself to languor. So Iāve been thinking about one instrument at a time, playing for about a minute or so and then stopping, and Iāve been thinking of narratives that are only a few lines long. Also, I had been using a lot of small notebooks, so when I reach the bottom of the page, Iāve only gone a short way. Now that Iām working on a different album, Iām enforcing a large notebook rule so that I donāt do Quickies twice in a row.ā
Quickies features Merritt and other Magnetic Fields band members Sam Davol, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, and John Woo. They are joined by longtime friends and collaborators Chris Ewen, Daniel Handler, and Pinky Weitzman.
To date, Stephin Merritt has written and recorded twelve Magnetic Fields albums, including the beloved 69 Love Songs and the 2017 critically acclaimed Nonesuch box set, 50 Song Memoir, which chronicled the first fifty years of the songwriterās life with one song per year. New York magazine called the box set āa celebration of Merrittās sky-high range as a writer and a player, through the exploration of the circumstances that helped cultivate it ā¦ a delightful flip through the untold back pages of one of rockās most singular voices, and, all in all, the best damned Magnetic Fields album in the last ten years.ā Merritt has also composed original music and lyrics for several music theatre pieces, including an off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaimanās novel Coraline, for which he received an Obie Award. In 2014, Merritt composed songs and background music for the first musical episode of public radioās This American Life. Stephin Merritt also releases albums under the band names the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes.
āAn incomparable lyricist capable of balancing arch wit with painfully acute observation.ā ā Guardian
Nonesuch Records releases the Magnetic Fieldsā Quickies, a CD album that features twenty-eight new short songs by Stephin Merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Merritt explains his thinking behind the Quickies concept: āIāve been reading a lot of very short fiction, and I enjoyed writing 101 Two-Letter Words, the poetry book about the shortest words you can use in Scrabble. And Iāve been listening to a lot of French baroque harpsichord music. Harpsichord doesnāt lend itself to languor. So Iāve been thinking about one instrument at a time, playing for about a minute or so and then stopping, and Iāve been thinking of narratives that are only a few lines long. Also, I had been using a lot of small notebooks, so when I reach the bottom of the page, Iāve only gone a short way. Now that Iām working on a different album, Iām enforcing a large notebook rule so that I donāt do Quickies twice in a row.ā
Quickies features Merritt and other Magnetic Fields band members Sam Davol, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, and John Woo. They are joined by longtime friends and collaborators Chris Ewen, Daniel Handler, and Pinky Weitzman.
To date, Stephin Merritt has written and recorded twelve Magnetic Fields albums, including the beloved 69 Love Songs and the 2017 critically acclaimed Nonesuch box set, 50 Song Memoir, which chronicled the first fifty years of the songwriterās life with one song per year. New York magazine called the box set āa celebration of Merrittās sky-high range as a writer and a player, through the exploration of the circumstances that helped cultivate it ā¦ a delightful flip through the untold back pages of one of rockās most singular voices, and, all in all, the best damned Magnetic Fields album in the last ten years.ā Merritt has also composed original music and lyrics for several music theatre pieces, including an off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaimanās novel Coraline, for which he received an Obie Award. In 2014, Merritt composed songs and background music for the first musical episode of public radioās This American Life. Stephin Merritt also releases albums under the band names the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes.
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āAn incomparable lyricist capable of balancing arch wit with painfully acute observation.ā ā Guardian
Nonesuch Records releases the Magnetic Fieldsā Quickies, a CD album that features twenty-eight new short songs by Stephin Merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirty-five seconds.
Merritt explains his thinking behind the Quickies concept: āIāve been reading a lot of very short fiction, and I enjoyed writing 101 Two-Letter Words, the poetry book about the shortest words you can use in Scrabble. And Iāve been listening to a lot of French baroque harpsichord music. Harpsichord doesnāt lend itself to languor. So Iāve been thinking about one instrument at a time, playing for about a minute or so and then stopping, and Iāve been thinking of narratives that are only a few lines long. Also, I had been using a lot of small notebooks, so when I reach the bottom of the page, Iāve only gone a short way. Now that Iām working on a different album, Iām enforcing a large notebook rule so that I donāt do Quickies twice in a row.ā
Quickies features Merritt and other Magnetic Fields band members Sam Davol, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, and John Woo. They are joined by longtime friends and collaborators Chris Ewen, Daniel Handler, and Pinky Weitzman.
To date, Stephin Merritt has written and recorded twelve Magnetic Fields albums, including the beloved 69 Love Songs and the 2017 critically acclaimed Nonesuch box set, 50 Song Memoir, which chronicled the first fifty years of the songwriterās life with one song per year. New York magazine called the box set āa celebration of Merrittās sky-high range as a writer and a player, through the exploration of the circumstances that helped cultivate it ā¦ a delightful flip through the untold back pages of one of rockās most singular voices, and, all in all, the best damned Magnetic Fields album in the last ten years.ā Merritt has also composed original music and lyrics for several music theatre pieces, including an off-Broadway stage musical of Neil Gaimanās novel Coraline, for which he received an Obie Award. In 2014, Merritt composed songs and background music for the first musical episode of public radioās This American Life. Stephin Merritt also releases albums under the band names the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes.
